Facts, Then Smear

2:08 pm EST August 23rd, 2005 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

In his post sliming Markos of Daily Kos, you would think Wizbang’s Jay Tea could get the simplest facts right. Markos doesn’t work at Media Matters. I would know, because… I do.

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7 Responses to “Facts, Then Smear”

  1. Oliver says:
    August 23, 2005 at 9:08 pm

    It was a pretty significant fact, something about which one would think to include if you’re making a post ostensibly about intricate political issues. It’s emblematic of the sort of slapdashery that accounts for deep thought on the right nowadays. On the larger issue of Kos slamming the DLC, I think he’s quite wrongheaded and essentially destined to failure in that pursuit. But you still got the most basic of facts dead wrong.

  2. JayTea says:
    August 23, 2005 at 9:08 pm

    Funny, the only thing you pick up on was my mistake about Media Matters. My apologies; after a while, all the whackos tend to blur together. I really should pay better attention to the finer nuances, but I tend to get queasy after too long.

    And as far as “smearing” goes — isn’t that the point behind Kos’ little proclamation?

    “My draft version of this post included a whole refutation of Marshall’s aargument, but really, it’s all irrelevant. Ultimately, this is the modern DLC — an aider and abettor of Right-wing smear attacks against Democrats. They make the same arguments, use the same language, and revel in their attacks on those elements of the Democratic Party that seem to cause them no small embarrassment.

    Two more weeks, folks, before we take them on, head on.

    No calls for a truce will be brooked. The DLC has used those pauses in the past to bide their time between offensives. Appeals to party unity will fall on deaf ears (it’s summer of a non-election year, the perfect time to sort out internal disagreements).

    We need to make the DLC radioactive. And we will. With everyone’s help, we really can. Stay tuned.”

    I actually have a smidgen of regret about that posting, by the way. By contributing in some small way to calling attention to Kos’ declaration of war, I feel I might have diminished its chances of actually happening. For the sake of a little premature gloating, I might have cost myself some truly profound revelry.

    But I still find it most telling that the most significant element you singled out for attention was the financial angle. I guess it really is “all about the Benjamins” to you.

    J.

  3. JayTea says:
    August 23, 2005 at 10:08 pm

    You hang up on that half a sentence. A single clause. No rebuttal to my roasting him yet again over the “screw them” mess? Or his stunning track record of failure?

    Here’s another irony. The whole POINT of his crusade/jihad/fixation is to smear the DLC out of relevance. Yet you call my mistakenly labelling him as an employee of Media Matters a “smear?” You consider that a smear? You didn’t even toss off a token “we’d be proud to have him,” or a “would have been proud to have him, before this,” or even “with his record, we don’t think he’d be a good fit.

    Oh, and you do me great praise by singling me out as emblematic as one of the “deep thinkers” on the right. Quite heady praise for a self-described “militant moderate” and “a nobody from nowhere with a nothing job and no life.” It really means a lot to me that you’d choose me for such lavish attention.

    Well, lavish by your standards. Two whole sentences, as well as two comments on Wizbang, each with two whole sentences (although one is largely a repeat of your posting). Then a whole four sentences in rebuttal. That’s beyond verbose, that’s almost unprecedented. I may swoon.

    J.

  4. Oliver says:
    August 23, 2005 at 11:08 pm

    Why in the lord’s name would I waste my precious words beyond what’s necessary on the mental midgets of the world?

  5. JayTea says:
    August 24, 2005 at 3:08 am

    I dunno, Ollie — it’s YOUR readers you’re talking about. But personally, I don’t think you should speak so derogatorily about them.

    J.

  6. JayTea says:
    August 24, 2005 at 8:08 am

    Jadegold, could you please get a single fact right?

    1) It’s not MY blog, it’s Kevin Aylward’s. I’m just along for the ride.

    2) Paul, the other associate editor at Wizbang, was the one who did all the arguing about creationism. I’ve never touched the subject.

    3) The day I need to come around to this particular refuge from sanity for “hits” for Wizbang is the day I hope Kevin kicks me off of Wizbang and holds open auditions for my replacement.

    Actually, Jadegold, you did get one thing right — my pen name. I’ve lost count of the “Jaytea” and “Jay Tee” and “JTee” variations I’ve seen. So my thanks for at least not mangling my name.

    J.

  7. Jadegold says:
    August 24, 2005 at 8:08 am

    Ahhhh, Jay Tea’s trying to muster up some hits for his silly blog.

    Of course, he did manage to garner a load of hits when he was posting in favor of creationism but those were overwhelmingly of folks coming to see his freak-show arguments so they could make fun of him.